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We present the technology and performance of InAlN/AlN/GaN MOS HEMTs with gate insulation and surface passivation using ZrO2 or HfO2. About 10-nm-thick high-k dielectrics were deposited by MOCVD before the ohmic contact processing. Plasma pretreatment allo ...
The complex mechanical modulus of polymer and polymer based composite materials showed a frequency-dependent behaviour during glass transition relaxation, which was historically modelled by the Arrhenius equation. However, this might not be true in a broad ...
Forward and reverse leakage currents in GaN/InGaN multi-quantum well light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are caused by reactive-ion etching (RIE) damages during device patterning. A method to recover the damaged surfaces, based on a chemical etch in KOH: ethylene ...
We study proton diffusion in amorphous SiO2 and hafnium silicates at the atomic scale. In amorphous SiO2, ab initio molecular dynamics suggest that the dominant atomic process consists in cross-ring interoxygen hopping assisted by network vibrations. In ha ...
Obtaining water microstructures is very difficult because of low viscosity and high surface tension. We produced stable freestanding thin films of pure water by x-ray bombardment of small liquid volumes in capillary tubes. A detailed characterization with ...
Metal-insulator-silicon capacitors have been fabricated using novel insulators of SiO2/HfO2-Al2O3-HfO2 (HAH)/Al2O3 and metallic HfN gate, exhibiting a program-erasable characteristic. The memory capacitor presents a large memory window of 2.4 V under +12 V ...
It has been experimentally observed that the incorporated fluorine will greatly improve the reliability of high-permittivity gate dielectric based transistors, but the role of fluorine passivation on leakage current change through gate is still a debated i ...
We apply metal organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) of HfO2 and of ZrO2 from beta-diketonate precursors to grow high-k gate dielectrics for InAlN/AlN/GaN metal oxide semiconductor (MOS)-high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). High-k oxides of abo ...
The earliest ideas of the polaron recognized that the coupling of an electron to ionic vibrations would affect its apparent mass and could effectively immobilize the carrier (self-trapping). We discuss how these basic ideas have been generalized to recogni ...
Pb(Zr-x,Ti1-x)O-3 thin films of homogeneous composition were synthesized by means of a modified sol-gel route on Pt(111)/TiOx/SiO2/Si substrates. The usually observed gradient in B-site composition could be reduced from +/- 12 to +/- 12.5 at% amplitude in ...